Welcome to PaulusArt
There are many ways to deal with and ways to examine life. In PaulusArt we look at life through a creative and business lens. Each student is put into a job position of the PaulusArt Company. Our main goal is to create quality work for the art show at the end of the year. Some of the work will make it, some will be good enough to represent Pioneer Valley High School at the Art Show in the Mall in April and most of the work will be used for practicing art skills. The philosophy of the class is to open up students awareness of art around us and art that has been created before us. The curriculum is designed so that students will be introduced to a plethora of material that hopefully will entice them for further study. If nothing else they will have a seed of knowledge to base their art knowledge on.
The business aspect of the program is that they will be treated as employees of the PaulusArt Company. They will be assigned tasks that they are expected to complete. If they don't finish the projects and choose to not complete their work and or follow the rules of the company then they will be placed in seating situations with other like employees. Certain privileges will be withheld and their team freedoms will be stunted.
Grades will be presented like paychecks every six weeks. A checklist will be online that you may guide your student into completing.
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Why Creative People
Sometimes Make No Sense
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s book Creativity: The Work and Lives of 91 Eminent People.
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Most creative people have a great deal of physical energy, but are often quiet and at rest. They can work long hours at great concentration.
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Most creative people tend to be smart and naive at the same time. “It involves fluency, or the ability to generate a great quantity of ideas; flexibility, or the ability to switch from one perspective to another; and originality in picking unusual associations of ideas. These are the dimensions of thinking that most creativity tests measure, and that most creativity workshops try to enhance.”
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Most creative people combine both playfulness and productivity, which can sometimes mean both responsibility and irresponsibility.
“Despite the carefree air that many creative people affect, most of them work late into the night and persist when less driven individuals would not.”
Usually this perseverance occurs at the expense of other responsibilities, or other people.
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Most creative people alternate fluently between imagination and fantasy, and a rooted sense of reality. In both art and science, movement forward involves a leap of imagination, a leap into a world that is different from our present. Interestingly, this visionary imagination works in conjunction with a hyper awareness of reality. Attention to real details allows a creative person to imagine ways to improve them.
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Most creative people tend to be both introverted and extroverted. Many people tend toward one extreme or the other, but highly creative people are a balance of both simultaneously.
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Most creative people are genuinely humble and display a strong sense of pride at the same time.
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Most creative people are both rebellious and conservative. “It is impossible to be creative without having first internalized an area of culture. So it’s difficult to see how a person can be creative without being both traditional and conservative and at the same time rebellious and iconoclastic.”
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Most creative people are very passionate about their work, but remain extremely objective about it as well. They are able to admit when something they have made is not very good.
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Most creative people’s openness and sensitivity exposes them to a large amount of suffering and pain, but joy and life in the midst of that suffering.
“Perhaps the most important quality, the one that is most consistently present in all creative individuals, is the ability to enjoy the process of creation for its own sake. Without this trait, poets would give up striving for perfection and would write commercial jingles, economists would work for banks where they would earn at least twice as much as they do at universities, and physicists would stop doing basic research and join industrial laboratories where the conditions are better and the expectations more predictable.”
Sometimes what appears to be a contradiction on the surface is actually a harmony in disguise. My problem has been primarily one of communication. I am learning to let people know what I am thinking and why, and explaining myself in a way that helps them understand why I am discussing multiple perspectives instead of just cleaning stating my own. At first it might not make sense, but give me/us long enough, and it will.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
22 things creative people do differently than the rest.
If you’re creative, you will understand…
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Creative people are different. That’s it. There’s something charming and irresistible about them, somehow they manage to see the world from another perspective, and the things they do, the decision they make are just different than what the rest of the people would usually do.
But what really makes creative people stand out from the crowd, and which are the struggles they face everyday?
The following list is dedicated to all the creative people out there, and why not to all the less creatives as well, because in the end, we are all creative in our very unique way.
Here we go, with the 22 things creative people do differently than the rest.
1. They get inspired at the least expected moment.
They can’t decide when the next big idea will come. It just will, in the least expected way, at the least expected moment.
2. They daydream. A lot.
They are here, but they’re not. They can fly away with their mind at any given moment during a conversation. Don’t be mad at them, it’s just the way they are.
3. They get easily bored.
They need to stay stimulated in order to stay active. They won’t focus on something they don’t like. Call them ADHD or whatever you like, this is just part of their genius.
4. They watch the world with the eyes of a child
There’s a part of them that never grows up, and maybe this is the real secret, observing the world with the eyes of a child.
5. They will fail, and you can be sure they will try again
Life it’s not always easy for a creative, especially for the professional ones. They will fail one thousand time in their life, then they will rise and succeed, only to fail again. Every creative, even the most successful one, has failed and has been rejected one million times. But they finally did it.
6. They are told to get a real job
It’s not easy to be accepted as a creative, especially when your loved ones expect something different from you. Real creatives will follow their dreams.
7. They will follow their heart, even if often their mind thinks otherwise
It’s said that creative people are more likely to worry less about problems and take more risks. This can brings to a thousand fails, but a million satisfactions.
8. They get lost in time
When they are creating they get lost in time and space, they can forget to eat, to drink and even to sleep. When words, colors or ideas start to flow out of their mind there’s nothing else that really matters to them.
9. They work when you sleep and they sleep when you work
Like we said at n. 1, inspiration comes at the most unexpected times. Just take it and make something great out of it.
10. Where most people see a difficulty, they see an opportunity
They can see the bright side of things, and brilliantly come out of troubles in unusual ways.
11. They fall in love with their pieces of work, and hate them the day after
This is still a mystery, but there is some kind of process that makes them extremely fickle about their creations.
12. They hate what they’ve just created, but will totally love it 12 hours later
Just like n. 11, this can happen too.
13. They are humble and proud at the same time
They are always willing to learn, but will be extremely proud and confident when it comes to their ideas and creations.
14. They are always looking to new ways to express themselves
Both if you do it as a job or you are just a creative person, you know there isn’t just one way to express creativity. If you are a photographer you’ll probably love to create in so many other ways. The same applies to painters, art directors, writers and every creative person in general.
15. They procrastinate
Give them a deadline and they will comply with it, but you can be sure they will do 90% of the work the night before the term.
16. They see the other side of the coin
They can always observe situations from a different point of view.
17. They don’t like boundaries
Rules and boundaries are not for them. Many popular creatives in history have even been labeled as rebels.
18. They often don’t like numbers
They are brilliant and can really amaze you at times, but try to let them do the math and you will be surprised by how much they dislike numbers.
19. They are great observers
They often are great people watchers and notice even the smallest detail. People and basically everything can be the inspiration for their next idea.
20. They always make new experiences
As we said before, they need to be stimulated to stay creative. Is there a better way to escape from routine by trying something you never did before?
21. They do it all over again
No matter how far they’ve come with their last creation. If at a given point they don’t like, they won’t think twice and will trash it just to start all over again. And again. And again.
22. They love
They love. Everything. They love life, they love people, they love emotions, they love animals, they love beauty. They can stay in silence watching the most beautiful sunset they’ve ever seen, or be excited for the next big art exhibit in town.
No matter what, their love for life is contagious, and if you have some friends like this, stick with them. They will make your life a little more beautiful.
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Course Title:
Introduction to Art
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Three Dimensional Sculpture
Instructor: Rob Paulus
Email: rpaulus@smjuhsd.org
Telephone: 922-1305, x5312